Happy Halloween!

Halloween 2008


this year! (oh how she's grown...)

Pumpkin Time

fall adventures at the Country Pumpkin

Menu Plan Oct 26-30

So this is another delayed menu plan. I did make it on Monday, but somehow the days are slipping through my fingers.

Monday: Lentil Casserole and Garden Salad (This is my go-to recipe when I don't get to the grocery store on Monday!)
Tuesday: Spaghetti
Wednesday: Leftover Buffet
Thursday: Crispy Chicken Fingers and Baked sweet potato chips
Friday: Grilled Honey-Lime Chicken Sandwiches

Hope everyone had a wonderful week!

The ABC's of me

Age: 27
Bed size: queen
Chore you hate: dishes and toilet scrubbing
Dogs or Cats: love dogs, allergic to cats (although I used to be petrified of dogs as a child)
Dog's name: Ava
Essential start you day item: coffee and carbs
Favorite color: blue
Gold or silver: silver
Height: 5' 7"
Instruments you've played: Piano, took lessons from grade 4 to 12 and then again in my music degree in uni, taught piano for quite a few years too. Played clarinet in band (grade 7 - 12) and played tenor sax for a bit in the jazz band. Oh, and can't forget the recorder.
I am: loved and blessed
Job Title: "Homemaker" and "Secretary/Treasurer" of Tim's company
Kids: Charlotte, 14 months. Love, love, love kids, and hope to have many more!
Loud or Quiet: Probably quiet???
Living arrangements: small house, with a great yard
Married? yes, 5 years
Mom's name: Laurel
Nicknames: my younger sisters used to call me Pammie.....
Overnight hospital stay: giving birth to Charlotte (1 night of labour and 2 nights after that), gall bladder attack a week and a half later, 1 night emergency surgery and then the next night I was back for 3 or 4 nights with complications.
Pet peeve: people talking during a movie
Quote from a movie: I never remember quotes from movies.......
Right or Left handed: Right handed
Siblings: Kathryn, Heather, Sarah and Anna (I'm the oldest!)
Time you wake up: varies every day. I get up when Charlotte does for maximum sleep opportunities.
Underwear: yes.
Vegetable you don't like: olives - are they a vegetable?
Ways you run late: many, many ways.
X- rays you've had: just my teeth?
Yummy food you make: I follow recipes really closely... so if it's bad, I blame the recipe!!
Zoo favorite: monkeys/gorillas


I tag - Mom, Kathryn, Kate, Shanie and anyone else who is reading this that has a blog :)

Menu Plan Monday - October 19th

I started typing September in the title... where has the fall gone? I was out walking this afternoon and was a little stunned to see that a lot of the trees have already dropped their leaves and the colours were less vibrant, more brown-ish. It seems to have passed so quickly this year...

I missed last weeks plan. Somewhere in the chaos of returning home from a lovely Thanksgiving weekend in the Valley, I lost track of the week and planning meals. We had some leftovers, and tried a yummy new soup, Sausage Potato Soup. We also took advantage of Superstore's deal on bbq chicken, potato salad, home fries and cookies all for $10.

So here goes a new week!

Monday: Birthday take out at a friend's house.
Tuesday: Pork with homemade applesauce and rice
Wednesday: Birthday dinner for a wonderful 4 year old!
Thursday: Soup with broth from the bbq chicken last week.
Friday: Chicken Ceasar Pasta Salad

Check out Organizing Junkie for more menu plan ideas.

sign language

I have been using ASL with Charlotte for quite some time now. We started with the sign for milk, more and eat. She didn't take to it very well, and to be honest, I wasn't very consistent. I didn't wait to give her something until she signed, and I used them sporadically. I didn't think we would get very far with it. (Which is no big deal to me, if I were serious about it, I would have been much more adamant about using them all the time.)

Recently, however, she is signing up a storm! She does milk, eat, water, more, book, bath, potty, ball, finished (all done) and she knows what the sign for diaper change is and goes to her changing spot when I do that sign. I always say the word while signing, and she also says book, ball, dada, and dog fairly often. She will say those words with the sign, except for dog and dada. She babbles a lot and I love that!

Last night, she completely surprised me. We were reading the book "Look at You! A Baby Body Book" which many will recognize as it is one of the books they give away in the hospital here in NB. We got to the page where it says "Time for a bath" and I paused before saying "bath". Now, there is a picture of a baby eating on this page as the words before that talk about eating. Charlotte signed "bath" before I said the word!! She predicted text in a book!!!! (Or knew the sequence of the words.) This absolutely shocked me. I was stunned. I know she's smart but....

wow! I am pretty proud of her :D

apple picking

We had a wonderful time apple picking at a local orchard last weekend. We went with our mom and babe group and the dads came too! Definitely check out one of the many orchards in Freddy this fall. A great outing! Fredkid.com has a list of all of the orchards, check it out here.


Happy Thanksgiving!

Menu Plan - October 5th

Another week. This one is going to be quick, as Charlotte is sleeping, and I have limited time to clean (reno dust EVERYWHERE), do dishes, laundry, bake and work on Simply Accounting. Oh, and deal with paperwork. Of course, blogging comes first. ;)

We stayed at Tim's parent's from Thursday night to Sunday night which was nice, but there is so much work to come home to. I'm trying my best not to panic and type fast.

Here is the plan (some may look familiar as Tim's parents graciously cooked our meals for us while we stayed there):

Monday: Tim is out so Charlotte and I may go out too. Get a fancy salad somewhere or something.
Tuesday: Bruschetta and baked chicken
Wednesday: Enchilada bake
Thursday: Curry chicken and veggies on basmati rice
Friday: leftover buffet

Check out Laura's blog for more exciting recipes and ideas!

Global Breastfeeding Challenge

The global breastfeeding challenge is this Saturday! Find out more info here: www.babyfriendly.ca.

Our local site is the Market, be there at 10:30 am. Click here for more info. If you are looking for your city/town the region list is here.

Let's get together and make breastfeeding public!